[Python-3000] More PEP 3101 changes incoming

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 14 03:36:48 CEST 2007


Eric Smith wrote:
> It's not clear to me if __int__ or __index__ is correct, here.  I think 
> it's __int__, since float won't have __index__, and we want to be able 
> to convert float to int (right?).

This issue doesn't arise if the object itself does the
fallback conversion, as in the example I posted, rather
than leave it to generic code in format().

--
Greg


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